Image Trace in the newest updates of Illustrator is unaccaptable

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May 14, 2026
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How is it possible to completely destroy the Image Trace tool?! I work with illustrations created in .psd, convert them to bitmap and save them as .tif. The illustrations can be quite detailed and use halftone textures. I have a custom setting for these in illustrator when I use Image Trace to turn them into vector. In the latest couple of updates this has been completely broken and there’s no work around that I have found. PLEASE FIX IT NOW!! The price for Adobe CC is way to high for issues like this to be acceptable.

See screenshots below of preferred outcome and compare to the outcome in the latest version of Illustrator.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

@andreasp53763161 This is what I get when I trace your image on the left.

I adjusted the settings

andreasp53763161Author

Participant

That image is already in vector, that’s not the one I have issues with. And when using your settings on the illustration I want to image trace now the results are just unaccptably bad. It can’t handle halftones at all.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

@andreasp53763161 Can you share an untraced example? I is not clear what you are showing in your first post.

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @andreasp53763161

I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Image Trace in Illustrator. Would you mind sharing more details, such as the versions of the OS/Illustrator installed, a sample AI file and screenshots of the tracing options used, along with the results, so we can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

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